Installing an app for every courier firm you might receive a parcel from seems a bit much.

You mean everyone should install a piece of software from a company that appears to be ignorant about security?

And buy a very expensive tracking device with frequent security issues?

I am lucky to live in a country in which a large religious population eschews the smartphone, so saying "I don't have one" is acceptable and common here. But I have colleagues who tell me that they are expected to have a smartphone from everything to banks to government services to simple small restaurants.

Was also thinking, cool, where is this place, and how do I sign up?

But then I remembered, I already belong to a religion that makes the ownership of a smartphine quite unconscionable to me.

Indeed I wrote about how even a religious objection is unnecessary when there's a knock-down argument on the grounds of what is merely patently unethical.

> are expected to

I find these "expectations" come from those who didn't read Dickens.

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interesting. Where is that? I would like to know more

I live in Israel. Most of the ultra religious do not own a smartphone.

And where is this?

I live in Israel. Most of the ultra religious do not own a smartphone.

The FedEx one is meh and does afaik, but some (looking at you dhl) are almost useless as they provide little information (tracking info is hidden sometimes), sometimes do not allow you to add the parcel as it has a tracking code from a foreighn service which you cannot use and you have to figure out the local one, are full of "news" also known as ads and do not allow you to select the dropoff location closest to you (go ups!). Sorry, /rant.

I feel like DHL is the “YOLO” of delivery companies. My stuff always arrives, somehow, despite the entire process seeming archaic.